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In the Grip of Terror

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

LC Class
  
PN6071.H727 I5 1951

Genre
  
Horror fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Publication date
  
1951

Pages
  
xii, 364 pp.

Originally published
  
1951

Publisher
  
Permabooks

OCLC
  
01872109

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Author
  
edited by Groff Conklin

Similar
  
Poems and poetics, Edgar Allan Poe Collection, The unabridged Edgar All, A Medicine for Melancholy, Unnatural Death

In the Grip of Terror is an anthology of horror short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Permabooks in 1951.

The book collects twenty-two novellas, novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1842-1950 in various magazines.

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
  • "The Last Kiss" (Maurice Level)
  • "The Illustrated Man" (Ray Bradbury)
  • "The Upturned Face" (Stephen Crane)
  • "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey" (Dorothy L. Sayers)
  • "The Horror-Horn" (E. F. Benson)
  • "Night Drive" (Will F. Jenkins)
  • "In the Vault" (H. P. Lovecraft)
  • "The Diary of a Madman" (Guy de Maupassant)
  • "The Tool" (William F. Harvey)
  • "Bianca's Hands" (Theodore Sturgeon)
  • "The Cross of Carl" (Walter Owen)
  • "Hathor's Pets" (Margaret St. Clair)
  • "A Terribly Strange Bed" (Wilkie Collins)
  • "The Well" (W. W. Jacobs)
  • "Revenge" (Samuel Blas)
  • "The Pit and the Pendulum" (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • "Macklin's Little Friend" (H. W. Guernsey)
  • "The Easter Egg" (H. H. Munro)
  • "Problem in Murder" (H. L. Gold)
  • "The Moth" (H. G. Wells)
  • "A Resumed Identity" (Ambrose Bierce)
  • "Bubbles" (Wilbur Daniel Steele)

    • References

    In the Grip of Terror Wikipedia
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